LeRobot is a large, modular robotics and robot-learning framework maintained by Hugging Face. Although it contains substantial research code (20+ policy implementations, reward models, dataset formats, and RL infrastructure), its dominant character is that of a production-grade application/library: it exposes a rich CLI surface (lerobot-train, lerobot-eval, lerobot-record, lerobot-calibrate, lerobot-teleoperate, lerobot-annotate, lerobot-rollout), supports real hardware robots, teleoperators, cameras, and motor buses, and provides a well-structured Python package that can be embedded into external applications. The repo is best described as hybrid: a research codebase packaged as an installable robotics application framework.